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Everyone Included?

3. When you click on Share, you will be asked to select who gets to view, read, edit, add and delete your files. The wizard prompts you to choose people from a list. What do you see? These are the Users and Groups who can access your computer.

 

In this example, eBeth is a User, a personal profile, that I added for work.

 

Everyone (All users in this list)

This is a User Group that Windows created by default. User Groups simplify access management.

 

Say there were three or four people who use this computer to search the Internet. It is faster to grant Internet access to a group of users (Everyone) than to edit those permissions one user at a time.

 

Start -> Computer ->Folder ->Share